With all 1,230 games of the NHL season in the books, and the playoffs not set to start until Wednesday, the time has come to look at who should win the season-ending awards, to be presented in Las Vegas after the chase for the Stanley Cup has concluded.

Here are the picks for this year’s trophies, though it is worth noting that not all of the awards are voted on by writers—the Vezina Trophy, for instance, is awarded by the NHL’s general managers.

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Hart Trophy—MVP

Nobody in the NHL this season showed the ability to take over a game individually the way that Malkin did on his way to leading the league with 109 points. Of his 50 goals, nine were game winners, and with 70 penalty minutes, Malkin stayed out of the box more than any player with 50 goals and 50 assists since Vincent Lecavalier in 2006-07.

This could have been simply a nice bounce-back season for Malkin after blowing out his knee last year. Instead, Malkin, 25, took his game to a new level while leading the Penguins, who were without captain Sidney Crosby for the majority of the season, to the second-best record in the Eastern Conference.

Vezina Trophy—Top goaltender

Lundqvist is a three-time finalist, and the time has come for his name to be etched on the award after setting career bests with 39 wins, a .930 save percentage and 1.97 goals-against average. Although Lundqvist, 30, did not match his league-leading total of 11 shutouts from a year ago, he did blank eight opponents to lead the Rangers to their first division title in 18 years.

Norris Trophy—Top defenseman

The Norris is about more than being an elite offensive defenseman, which Weber was with 10 power-play goals; it is about the all-around game, and Weber has that in spades. Weber, 26, was credited with 177 hits and 140 blocked shots this season.

With 51 takeaways, Weber was one of two defensemen in the top 10 of that category, along with the Blues’ Alex Pietrangelo, who had more takeaways than giveaways. Advanced stats show that Weber played against top competition, started with unfavorable ice position more often than his rivals for the trophy and still excelled.

Selke Trophy—Top defensive forward

Bergeron, 26, is a player old-schoolers and the advanced-stats crowd can agree on. His plus-36 led the NHL, and he had 22 goals and 42 assists with only 20 penalty minutes.

Bergeron was second in the league to Vancouver’s Daniel Sedin with an 18.5 relative Corsi rating, which measures even-strength shot attempts for and against while a player is on the ice, relative to his teammates. The difference between Bergeron and Sedin is that while Sedin began 79.6 percent of his shifts in the offensive zone, giving an inherent boost to his Corsi figures, Bergeron was one of only two players in the top 10 in relative Corsi to start fewer than half his shifts in the offensive end. (The other was Dallas defenseman Alex Goligoski.)

Calder Trophy—Rookie of the year

Nugent-Hopkins, 18, would probably be the runaway winner if injuries had not cost him 20 games. As it was, he wound up tied with Landeskog for the rookie points lead with 52, scoring 18 goals with 34 assists and 16 penalty minutes.

This year’s rookie class was low on true breakout performances, but there were several first-year players who could make a case to be named among the finalists, including the Flyers’ Sean Couturier and Matt Read, the Devils’ Adam Henrique, the Rangers’ Carl Hagelin and the Sabres’ Cody Hodgson, who was traded from the Canucks at the deadline.

Jack Adams Award—Coach of the year

The Senators were supposed to be the worst team in the NHL this season, but now the season is over for 14 teams, and Ottawa plays on into the playoffs under a rookie coach who was a three-time 40-goal scorer in the league and has installed an offensively minded system that plays well to the strengths of his roster.

The Senators gave up 236 goals this season (not including shootouts), seventh-most in the NHL and the most of any playoff team, but knowing that they would be weak defensively, MacLean pushed the tempo and Ottawa wound up scoring 243 goals, the league’s fourth-highest total.

Lady Byng Trophy–Gentlemanly conduct

No defenseman has won the Lady Byng since Red Kelly in 1954, but making history is something Campbell already has done this season. He not only tied Robert Svehla’s single-season Panthers assists record with 49, but also became the first defenseman—and first player at any position since Paul Kariya, who won the Lady Byng in 1996-97—to record 40 assists in a season with as few as six penalty minutes.

Campbell, 32, averaged a career-high 26:54 of ice time in his first season with the Panthers, making it all the more remarkable that he only took three minor penalties in 82 games.

Masterton Trophy—Perseverance, sportsmanship, dedication to hockey

This is the most subjective of the NHL’s awards, right down to what the criteria are to win what has often lapsed into being a de facto Comeback Player of the Year award, or a pat on the back for a player dealing with an intense personal tragedy.

Cooke’s story is one of self-reinvention, as he made the most of what was seen as his last chance in the NHL after he was suspended 17 games at the end of last season for a brutal head shot on New York Rangers defenseman Ryan McDonagh. This season, Cooke, 33, scored a career-high 19 goals and cut his penalty minutes from 129 to 44, while playing all 82 games. He went from being the dirtiest player in the NHL to a model citizen, and if that’s not perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to the game, what is?

Tommy Wingels of the San Jose Sharks deserves mention for his work with the You Can Play Project, but his nomination for the Masterton feels somewhat misplaced—the King Clancy Trophy, for humanitarian work, would be better recognition.